Hello Alison, all depends from glue you use but in most cases need to be left for 12 hours. One room usually takes 5 working Days. Cheers Passion Floors
Hi this is an amazing video, thank you for doing it. I have enough of the smaller type of blocks i could relay in about two rooms, but they are all covered in bitumen, can i lay them with this on it would take years im sure to clean them all first ? what glue should I use please thank you.
@ hi. In the end I sold them on. Not because they were not useable , but because once I lifted the carpet (which I hadn’t done before buying the parquet) I discovered the original wood planked floorboards which must have been put down when they built the house at the end of queen Vicks reign. So I got experts in to sand and professionally finish the rooms and hallway. However !! Two videos I watched strongly indicated that you could in fact very safely kay the parquet on the floor without scraping off all the bitumen. But please please do your own research on that as well. Good luck
Hi great job guys. Having a look at doing myself a pine parquet floor, however they are damaged on the surface, and dry and worn, wondering about cutting 5mm of the top with a table saw or should I lay and sand, any advice appreciated thank you?
Thanks for your comment Jamie. The glue is lecol 5500 and in fact it’s not going into the ply. It looks like it is because adhesive is wetting the ply. I’m using 5mm notched trowel for spreading the glue and if you look closely at 0:14 you will see the trowel lines.
Hello, this looks fantastic. I'm planning to install something similar soon and I was wondering about kneeling on the the newly glued down parquet. Is there a certain amount of time you should wait before doing this? Also do you leave the glue to cure for 12 hours before trimming with the saw to prevent movement? It's hard to tell from your video how many days this was filmed over. Thanks in advance.
Alison Howard Hi Alison, if you use Lecol 5500 as your adhesive, then you will find albeit there will still be slight play while it dries, you can kneel on them as you go, just be sure to check the blocks are realigned if you move them. You have a few hours before they begin to fully dry, and around 12-14 hours for them to be fully set. Hope this helped in time before you commenced work!
Hi, did you have bitumen on the back of your parquet? (If it was reclaimed). And if so, did you remove it before sticking down? Trying to guage whether it's worth scraping the bitumen off.
Hi, I have old tongue & groove floor boards, about 90 years old. Can this heringbone be glued straight on top or does it require a 6mm plywood on top first. Can you supply and install in the South East of England.
Hello Alison, all depends from glue you use but in most cases need to be left for 12 hours. One room usually takes 5 working Days.
Cheers Passion Floors
Awesome! About to start ours. We have incredibly small pieces though!
Hi this is an amazing video, thank you for doing it. I have enough of the smaller type of blocks i could relay in about two rooms, but they are all covered in bitumen, can i lay them with this on it would take years im sure to clean them all first ? what glue should I use please thank you.
Hi Geoff. I'm in the same position - lots of bitumen on the back and wondering whether to scrape off over the next year! What did you end up doing?
@ hi. In the end I sold them on. Not because they were not useable , but because once I lifted the carpet (which I hadn’t done before buying the parquet) I discovered the original wood planked floorboards which must have been put down when they built the house at the end of queen Vicks reign. So I got experts in to sand and professionally finish the rooms and hallway. However !! Two videos I watched strongly indicated that you could in fact very safely kay the parquet on the floor without scraping off all the bitumen. But please please do your own research on that as well. Good luck
Hi great job guys. Having a look at doing myself a pine parquet floor, however they are damaged on the surface, and dry and worn, wondering about cutting 5mm of the top with a table saw or should I lay and sand, any advice appreciated thank you?
You should cut them from underneath not from top you'll reduce life of the floor if you cut them from top.
Cheers Passion Floors
Use a thicknesser to reduce them to the bare minimum that’s required. Going through 1mm stages.
Fantastic job looks incredible, can you let me know what you used for the floor after you sanded it . Thanks
We used Bona Mega Lacquer as the finish.
Cheers
After it’s been laid any idea how to make the floor even ?
did you remove the tar off the back? if not what was the glue you used. Love how it turned out!
Thicknesser
Did you have to prep the blocks before starting and if so what method do you use? Also how did it take from start to finish to do the job? Many thanks
Excellent, what's the glue you used to stick it down....? Looks like its going into ply?
Thanks for your comment Jamie.
The glue is lecol 5500 and in fact it’s not going into the ply. It looks like it is because adhesive is wetting the ply. I’m using 5mm notched trowel for spreading the glue and if you look closely at 0:14 you will see the trowel lines.
great video. What glue did you use to spread and fill any holes with the sand left over? Thanks.
We are using lecol 5500 adhesive, and just clear lacquer Bona Mega as a finish this product take a colour of the wood.
All the best, Cheers
Hello, this looks fantastic. I'm planning to install something similar soon and I was wondering about kneeling on the the newly glued down parquet. Is there a certain amount of time you should wait before doing this? Also do you leave the glue to cure for 12 hours before trimming with the saw to prevent movement? It's hard to tell from your video how many days this was filmed over. Thanks in advance.
Alison Howard Hi Alison, if you use Lecol 5500 as your adhesive, then you will find albeit there will still be slight play while it dries, you can kneel on them as you go, just be sure to check the blocks are realigned if you move them. You have a few hours before they begin to fully dry, and around 12-14 hours for them to be fully set. Hope this helped in time before you commenced work!
Hi, did you have bitumen on the back of your parquet? (If it was reclaimed). And if so, did you remove it before sticking down? Trying to guage whether it's worth scraping the bitumen off.
Hi, I have old tongue & groove floor boards, about 90 years old. Can this heringbone be glued straight on top or does it require a 6mm plywood on top first. Can you supply and install in the South East of England.
Hi Moda,
You will need to install 9mm plywood first, so sorry but we cover north west.
Cheers Passion Floors
Looks great,
How thick is the ply you use for this ?
It was 9mm ply mate but you can use bigger if you like.
Cheers
He is fast
Do you need to stain or with Rhodesian teak will it colour up naturally when lacquered?
Outstanding
Throw it in rubbish